City Textures rework

[rince33]

Jokes aside, I do appreciate all the comments received so far, and I hope that nobody was offended by my weird sense of humour. All suggestions were quite valid and have helped tremendously..

I worked on Hornchurch again today, separating the hangar paving sections and tracks. creating separate layers while listening to various crazy news podcasts.

My thinking is that gravel and tar was used generally on roads because it was more cost effective, but runways were probably constructed from concrete slabs to take the weight of aircraft landing. The runway at Kenley has probably been modernised over the years as it seems to be still in use. It's great to see that this airfield still exists.

This is a recent photo with little over exposure.

This does look better.


Kenley sometime before the war, note the light concrete surface

 

[rince33]

Google ai response to my question about concrete airfield use in 1940.

Yes, many 1940s runways were made from concrete, often using pre-cast or poured concrete slabs to support heavy World War II military aircraft. However, engineers also used asphalt, soil-cement mixtures, or packed grass and steel mesh depending on available materials and the weight of the planes.

Two favourite songs of mine, initially because of their musical brilliance and later for the deep esoteric meaning of their lyrics.

 

[greycap.raf]

What were the famous last words of an amateur texture editor before he shot himself?
"constructive criticism is welcome"

The really bad situation is when people with little idea about what they're doing begin "correcting" your work. Makes you want to shoot them instead of yourself.

 

[rince33]

Recent update of the Hornchurch texture.

And I have not forgotten this.

Pembroke just got more interesting when I identified a familiar shape in the lower left of the pic.

Property developers have no shame.

 

[Shessi]

Yes, looks much better. Defined, detailed with a used appearance, but not the dark worn-out look.

S

 

[Pat Pattle]

Mmm.. Hornchurch has the wrong airfield code. I'll knock together the correct one and send it over Glen.

 

[gecko]

Hornchurch is looking great! Paved areas look natural and used, but not aged. The grass has nice wear and variation.

 

[rince33]

I used an il2 airfield paved texture on these though most of this hangar paved area is hand drawn which looks neater.

Textures degrade when you scale or rotate them with gimp. Changing the interpolation in the settings menu should improve the quality, but I don't see any real improvement after doing this. Now, after rotating or scaling this section I cleaned it up by drawing fresh lines which are a pixel in width.
I have an old version of Photoshop somewhere but I wouldn't have switched to gimp years ago if it supported dds format.